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14 AUGUST 2025 | OUR PARTNERSHIPS A low-cost floating reflector to enable space-based synthetic aperture radar to detect people lost at sea is being developed by University of Auckland scientists in…
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1 AUGUST 2025 | OUR PEOPLE Dr Jovan Skuljan (2nd from right in photo), a senior scientist at DST, has led the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) research in space situational…
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20 JUNE 2025 | OUR PARTNERSHIPS In February 2020, the RNZN and DST signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to deliver critical scientific support for the upgraded Anzac frigates.
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Applications close on Monday 11 August 2025 Mō te tūnga | About the role The Underwater Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (UISR) team provides specialist advice inside the NZDF related to underwater sensor…
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19 MAY 2025 | OUR PEOPLE Welcome to the DST Team Kirby-Jane Hallum, PhD (center in photo above) our new Principal Advisor, Science Partnering.
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8 MAY 2025 | OUR PARTNERS Banding Together with International Partners to Strengthen Global Space Security A recent Aerospace-facilitated experiment conducted in New Zealand aims to increase understanding of the effects of…
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1 MAY 2025 | OUR SCIENCE DST is proud to have played a key role behind the scenes of the New Zealand Ministry of Defence's proposed Long-term Insights Briefing topic: How…
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11 APRIL 2025 | OUR SCIENCE Twenty-five years ago, a collision between Chaos Theory and computer simulation brought to life one of DST’s longest-standing and successful research products – the MANA…
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8 APRIL 2025 | OUR PARTNERSHIPS DST and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade hosted the first activity of 2025 under the New Zealand-United States Dialogue on Critical and…
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